Supreme Court to resume hybrid physical hearings from March 15

The Supreme Court on Saturday issued the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for resuming hybrid physical hearings from March 15, a year after it started hearing cases through video-conferencing due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court on Saturday issued the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for resuming hybrid physical hearings from March 15, a year after it started hearing cases through video-conferencing due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This comes after several bar bodies and lawyers had been demanding to resume physical hearings immediately. "On an experimental basis, and as a pilot scheme, the final hearings/regular matters listed on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays may be heard in the hybrid mode, as may be decided by the bench, considering the number of parties in a matter as well as the limited capacity of the courtrooms; all other matters, including those listed on Mondays and Fridays, shall continue to be heard through video/tele-conferencing mode," news agency PTI cited the SOP issued by the Supreme Court.